Improvement in toy locomotives



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Toy-Locomotive.

No. 216,809. Patented .lune2'4, I879.

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IMPROVEMENT IN TOY LOCOMOTIVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 216,809, dated June 24, 1879; application filed January 27, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES C. SHEPHERD, of Passaic, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented an Improvement in Toy Locomotives, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to produce a noise by drawing a wooden spring slipping off metal pins makes a noise that imitates that of a locomotive.

drivers; 0, the boiler, and d the chimney, of a toy locomotive.

the toy along. I find that,

i i are pins projecting .from the sides of I the driving-wheels near the center or hub, and h is a wooden spring fastened at the imitation cylinder 70, and occupying the position of the piston-rod and connecting-rod, and the end is adjacent to the pins i '13, so that as they are carried around by the wheel when the loco motive is drawn along, the spring is strained and then allowed to fly up, and makes the noise as before mentioned. I claim as my invention- The toy locomotive provlded with a spring in imitation of the connecting-rod and pins on the wheels, as set forth.

Signed by me this 22d day of January, A. D. 1879.

CHAS. O. SHEPHERD.

Witnesses:

GEO. T. PINOKNEY, WILLIAM G. MOTT. 

